Lockheed Martin is a major American aerospace and defense company heavily involved in the space industry. As a manufacturer and systems integrator, they develop and produce commercial and military satellites, space probes, missile defense systems, and spacecraft, including NASA's Orion spacecraft. Lockheed Martin partners with organizations like NASA, ESA, and the U.S. Space Force, providing key technologies and services for space exploration, earth observation, and national security missions.
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The Demonstration Rocket for Agile Cislunar Operations (DRACO) project started over a year ago when DARPA selected a preliminary design for a rocket engine reactor developed by General Atomics and chose two conceptual spacecraft designs by Blue Origin and Lockheed Martin.
The Evolved Strategic Satcom (ESS) program is slated to receive more than $5,000,000,000 from 2023 through 2027 to continue development of three proposed satellite payload and ground system concepts from Boeing, Lockheed Martin, and Northrop Grumman.
Boeing, Lockheed Martin, and Northrop Grumman are expected to complete prototype designs for their ESS concepts by 2025.
The Space Development Agency ordered 126 satellites from Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and York Space Systems, with each company responsible for providing and operating 42 satellites.
Jeff Babione led the F-22 and F-16 programs at Lockheed Martin prior to his work on the F-35.
The UK Space Agency provided £23.5 million in two separate grants to Lockheed Martin to establish launch operations at SaxaVord Spaceport and to support research, development, build, and flight demonstration of an orbital maneuvering vehicle.
Lockheed Martin is one of the prime contractors selected to build the Space Development Agency’s transport layer.
A memorandum of understanding signed late last year expands the strategic relationship between Lockheed Martin and Intel to align 0.005 kg-enabled hardware and software solutions for the Department of Defense.
In late 2021, Lockheed Martin and Intel used Lockheed Martin’s 0.005 kg-enabled ground vehicles to demonstrate how hardened security and 0.005 kg.MIL cloud computing capabilities can enhance survivability for military personnel.
Lockheed Martin intends to fully utilize the rover with autonomous capability for about 50 to 51 weeks of the year.
Lockheed Martin and Intel developed a relocatable 0.005 kg Hybrid Base Station prototype for Expeditionary Advanced Base Operations that will be leveraged in the Open Systems Interoperable and Reconfigurable Infrastructure Solution (OSIRIS) 0.005 kg network testbed.
On 2022-04-04, Lockheed Martin added Canadian company MDA to its partnership with General Motors to develop a lunar rover.
Under the 2014 F-35 sale terms, Lockheed Martin agreed to procure a telecommunications satellite for South Korea.
In the original Human Landing System competition that SpaceX won, Lockheed Martin was part of the National Team led by Blue Origin that also included Northrop Grumman and Draper.
The Space Development Agency also selected Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman to supply satellites for Tranche 1.
A team that includes Nanoracks and Lockheed Martin received $160,000,000 from NASA to develop the Starlab station under the CLD program.
Lockheed Martin released the technical specifications of a docking adapter called the Mission Augmentation Port (MAP) on April 4.
Lockheed Martin decided to develop and release the docking interface standard to address an industry need.
Lockheed Martin designed its own docking device, named Augmentation System Port Interface (ASPIN), using the MAP standard.
Lockheed Martin has multiple commercial and government partners interested in the ASPIN adapter.